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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles will take up the case of Melissa Lucio, who is on death row, and make a recommendation to the governor after her clemency hearing Monday.... A supplementary filing submitted by Lucio's attorneys asserts that the conviction was based on a false confession and false or poor testimony from medical examiners and specialists.... " I will go home to my family or go to heaven....

Melissa Lucio was first sentenced to death in 2008 for the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez.... I am grateful to have more days to be a mother to my children and a grandmother to my grandchildren." Lucio's case will now head back to the 138th State District Court in South Texas, where Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz will decide how to retry it.... Saenz has the options of taking the case back to trial with a new jury of her peers, offering her a plea deal or droppin